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Iris Translate provides flexible website translation with two distinct methods to suit your needs:
Automatic Mode (Free) – Uses Google Translate’s client-side widget for instant translation with no setup required.
Google Cloud API Mode – Server-side translation with SEO-friendly translated URLs, hreflang tags, and full search engine indexability. Free for most websites (see below).
<h4>Key Features</h4>
Translation Methods
<ul>
<li>Automatic Translation – Free client-side translation using Google Translate widget, no API key needed</li>
<li>Google Cloud API Translation – Server-side translation for SEO-friendly, indexable translated content</li>
<li>Configurable fade-in delay to hide flash of untranslated content (Automatic mode)</li>
</ul>
SEO & URL Translation
<ul>
<li>SEO-friendly translated URLs (e.g., <code>/fr/a-propos/</code> instead of <code>/about/</code>)</li>
<li>Automatic hreflang tag generation for proper search engine indexing</li>
<li>Translated URL management interface with bulk translation tools</li>
<li>Individual URL path customization per language</li>
</ul>
Custom Translation Overrides
<ul>
<li>Override any automatic translation with your own custom text</li>
<li>Frontend translation editor for logged-in administrators</li>
<li>Edit translations directly on the page while browsing your translated site</li>
<li>Manage all custom translations from the admin dashboard</li>
</ul>
Language Selector Widgets
<ul>
<li>Multiple widget styles: Dropdown, Dropdown with flags, List, List with flags</li>
<li>Floating language selector with configurable position (corners of the screen)</li>
<li>Widget support for sidebars</li>
<li>Shortcode support: <code>[iris_translate]</code></li>
<li>PHP function support for theme integration</li>
<li>Display language names in their native script (e.g., “日本語” instead of “Japanese”)</li>
</ul>
Supported Languages
Over 25 languages supported including: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Arabic, Hindi, Turkish, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Czech, Romanian, Hungarian, Thai, Vietnamese, and Indonesian.
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin connects to Google services to provide translation functionality. By using this plugin, you agree to Google’s terms of service.
<h4>Automatic Translation Mode</h4>
When using Automatic Translation mode, this plugin loads the Google Translate Widget from Google’s servers.
What this service does: Provides client-side (in-browser) translation of your website content.
When data is sent: When a visitor selects a language to translate to, their browser communicates directly with Google Translate servers to fetch translations.
What data is sent: 
* The text content of the webpage being translated 
* The visitor’s IP address (sent by their browser to Google) 
* Browser cookies set by Google (including the <code>googtrans</code> cookie to remember language preference)
Service provider: Google LLC
Links: 
* <a href="https://translate.google.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Translate</a> 
* <a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Privacy Policy</a> 
* <a href="https://policies.google.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Terms of Service</a>
<h4>Google Cloud API Translation Mode</h4>
When using Google Cloud API mode, this plugin sends content to the Google Cloud Translation API for server-side translation.
What this service does: Provides server-side translation of your website content, enabling SEO-friendly translated URLs.
When data is sent: 
* When a visitor accesses a translated URL (e.g., <code>/fr/your-page/</code>), the page content is sent to Google for translation 
* When an administrator uses the “Translate All URLs” feature to bulk-translate URL slugs 
* Translations are cached locally to minimize API calls
What data is sent: 
* The text content of pages and posts being translated 
* URL slugs when using the URL translation feature 
* Your Google Cloud API key (for authentication)
What data is NOT sent: 
* Visitor IP addresses (translation happens on your server, not in the visitor’s browser) 
* Personal visitor information 
* User account data
Service provider: Google Cloud (Google LLC)
Links: 
* <a href="https://cloud.google.com/translate" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Cloud Translation API</a> 
* <a href="https://cloud.google.com/terms/cloud-privacy-notice" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Cloud Privacy Policy</a> 
* <a href="https://cloud.google.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Cloud Terms of Service</a> 
* <a href="https://cloud.google.com/translate/pricing" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Cloud Translation API Pricing</a> (includes free tier)
<h4>Cookies</h4>
This plugin sets the following cookie:
<ul>
<li>googtrans – Stores the visitor’s selected language preference. This is a session cookie used by Google Translate to remember which language the visitor chose. No personal data is stored in this cookie.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Data Privacy</h4>
<ul>
<li>In Automatic mode, translation processing occurs on Google’s servers via the visitor’s browser</li>
<li>In Google Cloud API mode, translation processing occurs on Google’s servers but is initiated by your WordPress server, not the visitor’s browser</li>
<li>Translated content is cached in your WordPress database to improve performance and reduce external API calls</li>
<li>No visitor personal data is collected or stored by this plugin</li>
<li>No visitor tracking is performed by this plugin beyond the language preference cookie</li>
</ul>

Iris Translate

Translate your WordPress site with free automatic translation or SEO-friendly Google Cloud API translation.

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Pampa Dev

<a href="https://auto-translate.pampa.dev/" rel="nofollow ugc">Automatic Translator with Google Translate</a> by <a href="https://pampa.dev" rel="nofollow ugc">Pampa Dev</a> helps you translate WordPress content for visitors with a lightweight Google Translate language switcher. Add a floating selector, place it in a menu, publish it in a widget area, insert it with a shortcode, or use the selector block.
Version 2 makes the language switcher easier to use, easier to place, and easier to style. Visitors get a cleaner translation experience, and site owners get better controls for where the selector appears, which languages are shown, and what content should stay untranslated.
Automatic Translator is a free visitor translation plugin. It changes what visitors see in their browser after they choose a language. It does not create translated URLs, translated posts, hreflang tags, sitemap entries, translated metadata, or SEO-indexable translated pages.
Plugin interface translations are included for Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese and English (UK).
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Free client-side translation powered by the Google Translate website widget</li>
<li>Custom language switcher for a polished visitor-facing selector</li>
<li>Translate posts, pages, menus, widgets, theme text, plugin text, and WooCommerce storefront text that appears in the page HTML</li>
<li>Floating language selector with configurable corner and offset controls</li>
<li>Menu, widget, shortcode, and selector block placement options</li>
<li>Language search, selection, ordering, and optional all-languages mode</li>
<li>Country flags with broad regional flag choices for languages spoken in multiple places</li>
<li>Styling controls for colors, borders, typography, shadows, icons, and dropdown appearance</li>
<li>Auto-detect option based on the visitor browser language</li>
<li>Multiple selectors on the same page with shared translation state</li>
<li>Advanced exclusion selectors for brand names, code samples, checkout fragments, or other content that should not be translated</li>
<li>Dedicated shadow-scoped CSS for the isolated minimalist selector and detached dropdown overlay</li>
<li>Loads translation tools only when visitors need them</li>
<li>Hardens translated content and selector styling against aggressive theme CSS</li>
<li>Uses a more isolated custom selector shell so theme CSS is less likely to break translated labels or icon alignment</li>
<li>Renders the open language list in a detached shadow-isolated overlay layer so theme stacking, local containers, and theme CSS are less likely to break or block it</li>
<li>No paid SaaS account or translation API key required</li>
</ul>
<h4>Free mode and multilingual SEO</h4>
Automatic Translator is built for instant visitor translation, not multilingual SEO indexing.
Free client-side translation is useful when visitors need to read your existing site in another language without creating and maintaining translated content. Search engines generally see the original page, because translated versions are not stored on separate URLs.
If you need multilingual SEO, you need a server-rendered translation system with stable language URLs, canonical handling, hreflang, sitemap integration, translated metadata, and translated slugs. Automatic Translator does not claim those features in free mode.
<h4>Placement options</h4>
You can place the language switcher in several ways:
<ol>
<li>Floating selector in the Placement tab (enabled by default).</li>
<li>Add the selector block in the block editor.</li>
<li>Add the selector to a classic menu or Navigation block menu.</li>
<li>Add the Automatic Translator widget to a widget area.</li>
<li>Insert a shortcode in content or a template.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Supported languages</h4>
Automatic Translator supports the languages available through the Google Translate website widget:
<ul>
<li>Afrikaans</li>
<li>Albanian</li>
<li>Amharic</li>
<li>Arabic</li>
<li>Armenian</li>
<li>Azerbaijani</li>
<li>Basque</li>
<li>Belarusian</li>
<li>Bengali</li>
<li>Bosnian</li>
<li>Bulgarian</li>
<li>Catalan</li>
<li>Cebuano</li>
<li>Chichewa</li>
<li>Chinese (Simplified)</li>
<li>Chinese (Traditional)</li>
<li>Corsican</li>
<li>Croatian</li>
<li>Czech</li>
<li>Danish</li>
<li>Dutch</li>
<li>English</li>
<li>Esperanto</li>
<li>Estonian</li>
<li>Filipino</li>
<li>Finnish</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>Frisian</li>
<li>Galician</li>
<li>Georgian</li>
<li>German</li>
<li>Greek</li>
<li>Gujarati</li>
<li>Haitian Creole</li>
<li>Hausa</li>
<li>Hawaiian</li>
<li>Hebrew</li>
<li>Hindi</li>
<li>Hmong</li>
<li>Hungarian</li>
<li>Icelandic</li>
<li>Igbo</li>
<li>Indonesian</li>
<li>Irish</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>Japanese</li>
<li>Javanese</li>
<li>Kannada</li>
<li>Kazakh</li>
<li>Khmer</li>
<li>Korean</li>
<li>Kurdish (Kurmanji)</li>
<li>Kyrgyz</li>
<li>Lao</li>
<li>Latin</li>
<li>Latvian</li>
<li>Lithuanian</li>
<li>Luxembourgish</li>
<li>Macedonian</li>
<li>Malagasy</li>
<li>Malay</li>
<li>Malayalam</li>
<li>Maltese</li>
<li>Maori</li>
<li>Marathi</li>
<li>Mongolian</li>
<li>Myanmar (Burmese)</li>
<li>Nepali</li>
<li>Norwegian</li>
<li>Pashto</li>
<li>Persian</li>
<li>Polish</li>
<li>Portuguese</li>
<li>Punjabi</li>
<li>Romanian</li>
<li>Russian</li>
<li>Samoan</li>
<li>Scots Gaelic</li>
<li>Serbian</li>
<li>Sesotho</li>
<li>Shona</li>
<li>Sindhi</li>
<li>Sinhala</li>
<li>Slovak</li>
<li>Slovenian</li>
<li>Somali</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
<li>Sundanese</li>
<li>Swahili</li>
<li>Swedish</li>
<li>Tajik</li>
<li>Tamil</li>
<li>Telugu</li>
<li>Thai</li>
<li>Turkish</li>
<li>Ukrainian</li>
<li>Urdu</li>
<li>Uzbek</li>
<li>Vietnamese</li>
<li>Welsh</li>
<li>Xhosa</li>
<li>Yiddish</li>
<li>Yoruba</li>
<li>Zulu</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
Automatic Translator with Google Translate uses <a href="https://appsero.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Appsero</a> SDK to collect some telemetry data upon user’s confirmation. This helps us troubleshoot problems faster and make product improvements.
Appsero SDK does not gather any data by default. The SDK only starts gathering basic telemetry data when a user allows it via the admin notice.
Integrating Appsero SDK does not immediately start gathering data without confirmation from users in any case.
Learn more about how <a href="https://appsero.com/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Appsero collects and uses this data</a>.

Automatic Translator with Google Translate

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Translate your WordPress site with a polished Google Translate language switcher for instant visitor translation.

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